]]>https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/12/14/san-jose-rep-takes-oath-with-captain-america-shield/feed/0Captain_America_ShieldroguethegirlCards Against Humanity…DAY 3!https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/12/10/cards-against-humanity-day-3/
https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/12/10/cards-against-humanity-day-3/#respondSun, 10 Dec 2017 17:35:14 +0000http://awanderingrogue.com/?p=2267The next chapter of the Cards Against Humanity holiday surprises has rolled up on my doorstep!

It was a rather slim envelope, so I was quite curious as to what surprise lay in store for me.

]]>https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/12/04/marvelous-goals/feed/0Marvel2roguethegirlMarvelOMG the Futurama Suicide Booth has been invented!https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/12/01/omg-the-futurama-suicide-booth-has-been-invented/
https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/12/01/omg-the-futurama-suicide-booth-has-been-invented/#respondSat, 02 Dec 2017 02:23:14 +0000http://awanderingrogue.com/?p=2253Everyone, if you know me even a little, you know I am a SUPERfan of Futurama. I adore that series so much. So when I saw this article, I thought “That’s it, we’ve got Suicide Booths now.”

For anyone living under a rock since 1999, a morbidly-amusing bit in the Futurama series is the Suicide Booth, which looks exactly like an old telephone booth, only, ya know, it kills you.

Please understand, I would never want to make light of someone ending their life. I do fully support those who have lived in such pain that they can no longer bear it and their quality of life has become nil to make a clear and informed decision.

And Dr. Philip Nitschke has come up with a painless and – let’s be honest – pretty swanky way to leave this world behind:

It looks like a space pod, and the short version is that the oxygen levels drop to 5%, making the person fall asleep, then passes away peacefully within a few minutes.

The doctor is aiming for the Sarco to be available by next year, and be available for 3D printing.

]]>https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/12/01/omg-the-futurama-suicide-booth-has-been-invented/feed/0scientistroguethegirlSB1SarcoCards Against Humanity…DAY 1https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/11/30/cards-against-humanity-day-1/
https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/11/30/cards-against-humanity-day-1/#commentsFri, 01 Dec 2017 01:00:33 +0000http://awanderingrogue.com/?p=2246Assuming that you’ve heard about Cards Against Humanity, and also assuming you’ve heard about their annual holiday promotions, I will assume you haven’t heard about their 2017 promotion, Cards Against Humanity Saves America!

For a scant $15 you will receive 6 surprises throughout the rest of December… it was too interested to let pass, and though they have no more available for purchase, I will be happily unwrapping the surprises so anyone who missed out can see for themselves.

This fairly heavy envelope arrived, looking quite important and fancy!

I carefully tear it open at the top and am greeted with a lot of folded papers, so I remove them all. The first page folded neatly on top catches my eye, so I unfold it first:

I’m dying. This is already the best $15 I’ve spent in a while. BUT WAIT, THERE’S LOADS MORE! I continue to unpack the rest and find the following:

I apparently now own part of the land they are using to legally block any attempt to build a continuous wall along the US/Mexican border, I get a wonderfully silly map, and a small pack of COH cards relevant to this promotion (I won’t ruin it my posting them).

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of OCD voicessuddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

]]>https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/11/29/disturbing/feed/220171129_154227.jpgroguethegirlThat Time I Met Ozzy Wearing a Bathrobe in his Hotel Room…https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/11/21/that-time-i-met-ozzy-wearing-a-bathrobe-in-his-hotel-room/
https://awanderingrogue.com/2017/11/21/that-time-i-met-ozzy-wearing-a-bathrobe-in-his-hotel-room/#commentsTue, 21 Nov 2017 17:00:53 +0000http://awanderingrogue.com/?p=2150It never ceases to amaze me what people will say.

Rita Ora has on a bathrobe in a public event where many were present and that makes her okay, and Harvey Weinstein had on a bathrobe in his hotel room where a woman was present and that makes him a creep. Females are inconsistent and dishonest and I have seen females at work sexually flirt and joke with good looking higher paid guys and laugh at return sexual banter, but complain and harshly label an unattractive guy as a creep for doing the exact same thing.

I…I cringe at the stupidity presented here. I know, I can’t expect much from Yahoo comments, but seriously. Almost as frightening was the amount of people supporting this guy’s comment.

So let me tell you a little story…

A long time ago in a high school I once attended, they had a radio station that broadcasted in a small radius – maybe a handful of towns received our signal. I got my DJ license, and it being around 1990, I hosted a metal show on Tuesday evenings.

This allowed me the opportunity to meet some really cool musicians, doing interviews by phone or in person and whatnot. I am particularly honored to have met Warren Haynes of Allman Brothers fame, and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave fame.

But nothing will top my crowning achievement of interviewing the legendary Ozzy Osbourne.

We were coming up on the 10th anniversary of Randy Rhoads’ death. Randy was his guitarist after Ozzy left Black Sabbath and tragically died in a plane crash. I wanted to see if I could wrangle an interview with him to honor the anniversary of Randy’s passing.

I don’t think Mike Schnapp, his US manager at the time, ever knew that I was only 16 when I started calling him, nor did I divulge it in case he thought I was just a fan trying to get access – I wanted to be professional. And after months of some back and forth, Mike set up the interview at the Helmsley Palace Hotel.

At the lobby of the hotel I am greeted by one of his team, who escorts me up the room. The guy is friendly, asks if I’ve ever met him before and assures me he’s a great guy.

At the door…knock…door opens.

And there stands my musical idol, OZZY FRICKIN’ OSBOURNE, in his bathrobe.

I was more bemused that he was shorter than me, though I must admit him being in a bathrobe was a bit disarming. I’m used to the black outfits, jewelry and crazy hair. This guy looks like he just stepped out of the spa.

But here is the ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE between my experience being in a celebrity’s hotel room while they wore a bathrobe and the experiences of many other women lodging complaints about other celebrities in the news today…

Ozzy. Wasn’t. Inappropriate. AT ALL.

He never flirted. He never came on to me, he never made a suggestive remark, he never asked me to do anything for or to him. He didn’t touch me (I think we perhaps shook hands at initially meeting), or try to hug me or massage me or anything like that. I asked a handful of questions and he talked for 30 minutes.

Ozzy Osbourne was a perfect gentleman and a consummate professional.

The other celebrities in the news now? Not so much. I never felt uncomfortable, or threatened, or got any bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. Trust me, I know the feeling, like the vast majority of women do at one time or another.

What is my point in all this?

The commentor above clearly has no frame of reference, and little capacity to accept the words of women. Do women falsely accuse? Yes. But few are truly willing to be publicly scrutinized, picked apart, called horrible names and smeared like they are in this day and age just for a few minutes of pseudofame.

Weinstein wasn’t just sitting there in his bathrobe. He was trying to coerce them into sexual favors based on his position of power in the industry. He could make or break their careers, in an industry that can be extremely hard to make a living at.

The workplace scenario – men cannot sexually flirt with those in lower levels to them without the possibility of it being a power play ala Weinstein “give me a backrub, you know we have an opening at the head of the Whatever Department…” Women are held to the same standard – they cannot coerce those in lower levels to do inappropriate and unwanted things with no fear of reprisal.

Does it happen? Yes, all the time. Which is why so many people are talking about it (both women and men who have been victimized). It’s more common than Generic Man may have ever realized. Perhaps they simply can’t wrap their heads around the enormity of the issue. Perhaps they don’t want to believe that their mother was forced to smile while enduring slaps on the rear as a secretary at the law firm, or that their sister was consistently pinched or grabbed while waitressing by the truck driver who always stopped in for coffee during her shift.

Maybe they don’t want to think that their daughter could have been coerced into sexual favors by her boss for fear of losing her job when other jobs have become very slim where she lives now. It’s pretty horrendous to think about and easy to say “nowaythathappens!” – butyoumightbesurprised.

So we are left to be angry, and rather than tamping it down, trying to to forget about it, or attempting straight-up denial, more and more and finding their voice and expressing their anger.

The question is whether more will listen to them or more will try and squash it down.